, 1887-08-18
Oriental Sciutii!atious.

3Iohammedaus believe in prelesti-
nation.
But three Europeans have ever Wis
lied Mecca.
n one time Palestine had 3,590,000
Inhabitants.
Persian girls are the finest looking
in the world.
The Jewish population Is estimated
at I4,UG0,joJ.
There are no places OF amusement
in Jerusalem.
There Is 80 drunkenness among the
AohammcGans.
Wad-el Wards father Is still alive
and III years Of age.
Hogs and dogs are the scayou5ers,
and they make good ones.
When dates are high ii Susz they
sell at = pounds Tor - cents.
There are 10000 students in the
hIohammedan university at Cairo.
Jerusalem has n population Of s.
coo with no printing press and no ice
ShouEd a man get druni, in Pales-
tine and fall down he is stoned to
death
Oranges sell ten for cent. and
very large ones at that, measuring Is
inches iii circumference.
: Jewish woman kisses tho hand of
her husband when she receives any
thing from him.
The United States have better in .
stItujious Of learning than any other
count. y in the world.
The head Of an ass, as used in the
Bible, means mans hat, and not
the beast, As many think.
The bones Of the animals are taken
to England and France and there used
IN the refining Of sugar
The ladies Of Palestine 90 ont but
twice year, once to their fathers and
once to the city of the dead.
Glass has been taken from the
t0Eubs OF Egypt which was Of much
finer quality than the glass Of today.
4 little girl in Portland, Maine, Of
fercd to bet her grandma ten cents
that Wad-el-Ward was n she man.
Pilgrims, in one procession to the
number Of 100000, have been known
to visit Mecca for the purpose of wor-
shipping at lis shrines.
No work Is done Oh Saturday, not
even cooking or combiug the hair,
among the Jews, and to and from the
synagogue they mast 80 with bare
feet
There are as high as 100000 Mo
hammedans who go to Mecca during
the ceremonies, and it is one of the
greatest markets in the world. When
cholera starts, it is sure to come from
this place.
Land that twenty years ago would
have brought no more than dollar
an acre in Palestine is now worth as
high as five thousand dollars per
acre and going higher.
The dead IRE buried on the day of
their death, and often when the body
Is yet warm. No collins are used,
and tho eldest son does not attend
the funeral of his father.
The city of Mecca has a population
Of 5000, 1t is represented as an ex-
ceedingly filthy city and crimes are
common that throw the memory OF
Sodom and Gomorrah in the shade,
Wad-el Ward was detailed by his
government to attend Gen. Grants
party seven weeks ct his own expense
or go to jail. Notwithstand this the
GeaeruI secretly paid him Sl5 per
day and his expenses for the trip.
As needles did not como into use
until 1913, the passage in scripture
relating to the soul of the rich man
IS manifestly Il mistake In translation
The eye alluded to in the text doubt
less means tho gateway IN the archs
of city walls, which were SO small as
to cause the camels 10 kneel in effect
ing passage through them.
Mohammedans drop everything foz
prayer. No matter what business
they may be engaged in, when proc
lamation is made of the hour for their
devotions, they spread their garments
on the ground and kneel in prayer
A fugitive, closely pursued even, will
do this, probably sustained by his
faith in predeStinution, and the be-
lief that he Will not die before his
| time comes.
Wad-el-Ward attributes the longe
vity of his people to. the sailing
process TO which all infants are sub
iected At birth they are Immersed
in s.Gong brine, until the skin is al
mos fayed. They are they powder
ed til fine salt and rolled up in
baudagos of cloth, (which remain in
close contact several days. This he
claims pradicates all germs of here
di;ary cutanoous diseases such as
scrofUla.